You can activate a menu, but it only covers very basic things. If you are confined to using only the menu, you might equally well use notepad. For base emacs,

You can activate a menu, but it only covers very basic things. If you are confined to using only the menu, you might equally well use notepad. For base emacs, the learning curve is not as steep as vim. I wonder if your problem was trying to do everything at once? Regardless, emacs really is more of a long-term investment. It will take you years to be fully proficient. Personally, I have gone away from using emacs (including org-mode and vim emulation), because it took too much time to keep the configuration shiny. My main issue with org-mode is that it's only really a first class citizen within emacs. I've not found any vim/vscode/etc. plugins that emulates the experience to satisfactory degree, and that lock-in means I've given up on org-mode.